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Article: Herpes simplex can cause vesicular folliculitis in the immunocompetent.
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- TB & Outbreaks Week
- Article date:
- June 24, 2003
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2003 JUN 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Primary infection with herpes simplex is capable of causing vesicular folliculitis in non-immunocompromised patients.
"Viral folliculitis is a rare disease usually caused by herpes simplex, herpes zoster, and molluscum contagiosum in immune-compromised patients. An otherwise healthy 30 year old patient without history of herpes simplex contracted a folliculitis in the beard region after a flu-like illness. He had no oral or labial lesions but instead showed a crusty erythematous folliculitis confined to the beard region, with small grouped vesicles on the neck and reactive cervical lymph nodes," scientists writing in the ...